N.J. Medical Marijuana Law Overlooks Many in Pain

Born without fingers and toes, Jack O'Brien faces crushing neuropathic pain. He can only sustain short walks on his deformed feet and the shooting pain up and down his arms and legs awakens him each morning. "It's getting worse and worse," said O'Brien, 55, a disabled fishing-boat captain from Laurel Lake, N.J. "I have pain all the time. It's always there. It's constant." But smoking marijuana in recent years has had a miraculous effect on O'Brien, working almost instantaneously. "It's like...Full Story